Placebase, providers of the commercial business mapping platform Pushpin, have announced a new Location Data API as well as a very useful new application that leverages it: PolicyMap.
Seattle-based wiki and social network startup Wetpaint today announced Wetpaint Injected, a new embeddable publishing platform designed to allow creation of user-generated content directly within any site.
The Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, whose long-term goal is to present “one web page for every book ever published.” A recent release of the Open Library brought the total number of book records to over 13.4 million (including over 234,000 records with full-text for the book).
As portable GPS devices become increasingly commonplace in cars, it was only a matter of time that such devices would become also networked and programmable. Dash Navigation, the maker of Dash Express, a “two-way, Internet-connected GPS navigation system,” announced yesterday DashApps, an API and developer program for the Dash Express.
Yesterday, Yahoo announced its new Internet Location Platform API, “a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth” that “provide[s] the Yahoo! Geographic Developer Community with the vocabulary and grammar to describe the world’s geography in an unequivocal, permanent, and language-neutral manner.”
Google announced Friend Connect today, a new service that will allow any web site to enable social networking features for their visitors. And the key piece of the strategy is that to do so only takes a few lines code, similar to the ease with which AdSense ads can be to any web page.
The spring conference season is in full swing at the moment and we’re seeing a lot of conference sessions and tracks focused on web APIs, platforms and mashups. Here’s a rundown of these events happening this month and next.
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If you want to see in realtime what’s going on Digg you can use their digg spy page. This popular Digg feature uses a dynamic Ajax UI to let you see diggs as they happen. And now it serves as a model for a growing number of mashups that use web APIs to give you a realtime window into activity on a variety of services.
In late March, Google announced enhancements to their mapping API that gave developers programmatic access to their popular streetview feature. Now there are some very interesting streetview mashups to check-out.
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